Cultural Autobiography Questionnaire: Exploring Identity and Cultural Awareness

Referral: Cultural
Autobiography

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Demonstrate your awareness of self by completing a cultural autobiography questionnaire ....3
Demonstrate your awareness of different cultures interviewing a colleague with a different
background using the cultural autobiography questionnaire......................................................4
Compare and contrast the two biographies and identify both similarities and differences.........6
Use your cultural frameworks to evaluate those similarities and differences.............................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Intercultural competence refers to the capability of functioning effectively in cultures for
acting and thinking accurately. Basically it is working and communicating with different people
belonging from cultural backgrounds (Ferreira-Lopes, Elexpuru-Albizuri and Bezanilla, 2021). It
has increased its importance in this globalised world where people are concerned about
maintaining relationship with people from various cultures who have been brought up by
experiences, beliefs and values.
MAIN BODY
Demonstrate your awareness of self by completing a cultural autobiography questionnaire
Cultural autobiography refers to the personal narration which assist in exploring history
about personal life like identity, perspectives and beliefs related to education and personal life
experience (Peng, Zhu and Wu, 2020). It assists in increasing the awareness related to cultural
identity to understand people from different backgrounds. Cultural autobiography questionnaire
refers to the questionnaire which have questions related to the belief, culture and value of people
or students.
Q1. I think that I am the person who likes to involve in social interaction whether they belong
from same culture or not.
a) Yes
b) No
Q2. I think ethics, gender, culture, racial and disability create a positive impact on my life.
a) Agree
b) Disagree
Q3. According to me I am comfortable at multiple languages but mostly my preference is
English.
a) Yes
b) No
Q4. As per my view I have analysed throughout my life that I am comfortable in working
individually as compared to working in a team.
a) Agree

b) Disagree
Q5. I think I am the type of person who is more indulgence in nature.
a) Yes
b) No
With the above provided information recorded in cultural autobiography questionnaire it
is believed that I am the person who gives maximum efforts in improving social interaction
whether other person belongs from same culture or not. Ethics, culture and gender are the factors
which have positive impact in my life as I am comfortable with every kind of person be it female
or male, other person belonging from different culture, the other person having any disabilities
and many more. As I feel great when I increase conversation with these people because then I am
able to know more about such people. As per my experience from my childhood I have realised
that I am interested in working alone rather than doing it in group because working individually
helps me in understanding my strengths and weaknesses. This is also determined by myself that I
am indulgence in nature where I continuously involve myself in activities of enjoyment.
Demonstrate your awareness of different cultures interviewing a colleague with a different
background using the cultural autobiography questionnaire
Cultural Autobiography Questionnaire
Questions Myself Elisha
Do you think ethics, gender,
culture, racial and disability
create a positive impact on
your life?
I think gender, ethnic, racial,
disability and culture create a
positive impact on my life. I
enjoy to live with different
culture people as it helps in
increasing the quality of life by
coming together and gaining
knowledge of different
cultures. Disability also create
a positive impact in life. The
person is only disable with
I think that these all factors
create a negative impact in my
life. I cannot cope up with the
situation, I feel unmotivated
and doesn't want to face the
society. But I am trying to put
my efforts for adapting the
cultures and interact with
people so that I can also enjoy
the varieties of different
culture and grab an